Romanian media, Boc goes after the fortunes of businesspeople, the only ones who can pull the country out of the crisis – in Ziarul Financiar, Franks spent over 6 hours at the NBR to discuss on economic revival – in Ziarul Financiar, Dacia close to completing future Logan, codenamed "X52" – in Ziarul Financiar, Top ten insurers made 1,400 employees redundant in a year – in Ziarul Financiar, Romanians get 4bn fiscal receipts a year for food and detergents – in Ziarul Financiar

If you're a pancakes fan, tell your taste buds to prepare for the the Pancakes Festival which will take place in Moneasa between July 31st and August 1st. The organizers of the event plan to prepare as many as 20,000 pancakes, which will be a record-breaking number compared to the previous editions of the festival.

Official unemployment went down in Romania in June this year compared to May, although as many as 70,500 people were officially recorded as unemployed in June, according to data from the National Agency for Workforce Occupancy.

Israeli firm Pointer will provide road assistance service packages for BCR Asigurari's customers in Romania and in the Central Eastern Europe. Pointer, a provider of automatic vehicle location technology, is a subsidiary of Shagrir.

Local charity Ovidiu Rom's already famous Haloween party, which will take place on October 30 this year, will recreate a Prom night from the 50s in the People's Palace location. The ball, which will be at its sixth edition, has used a different theme for each edition.

Overdue loans went up by a whooping 67 percent in the first half of the year in Romania, to around EUR 3.1 billion, according to data recently published by the Romanian Central Bank (BNR).

Shape up you dance moves and get ready to salsa. A Romanian Salsa festival will take place in

Car traffic between Chitila and the Militari area of Bucharest will be shut down during August, when works will start on the Northern ring road of the capital city, according to the National Roads Company.

The wind farm frenzy in Dobrogea has gone wild when five people where shot with rubber bullets on the premises of one of these wind farm projects in the area. The shooting followed a conflict between the inhabitants and the mayor in Cogealac locality, on one hand, and the body guards protecting the wind farm project which is being built there.

Romania will launch its new tourism brand on Thursday, July 29, at the Shanghai Expo, when Romania's National Day will be celebrated within the World exhibition there. Romanian sports legends Nadia Comaneci, Ilie Nastase and Gheorghe Hagi will attend the event. A recital by pan -pipe player Gheorghe Zamfir will also be organized.

The InterNations community in Bucharest organizes a mid-summer party this Thursday, July 29, starting 19,00 hours at Le Theatre Piano Restaurant.

The International Monetary Fund will revise Romania's economic forecast for this year, which currently stands to expect a 0.5 percent GDP drop, according to Jeffrey Franks, the head of the IMF mission to Romania. However, he has labeled the 3 percent drop forecast put forward by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as 'pessimistic'.